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A coalition of Asian American groups denounced the deportation of more than 30 Cambodian Americans Monday. The action by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement appears to be part of a crackdown by the Trump administration on refugees with criminal records. Many of those deported have served their...

Views from the Edge Every few months, scores of Khmer Americans are loaded onto a plane and deported to Cambodia and Laos. Many of these deportees have never set foot in these countries and are unable to communicate with locals. A new report, Southeast Asian American Journeys: A National Snapshot of Our...

By Felix Poon, AsAmNews Staff Writer Dozens of people Wednesday night held “Unjustly Deported” and “Welcome Home” signs in the Boston Logan Airport baggage claim as they waited for Thy Chea, a 50-year old Cambodian American refugee and resident of Lowell, Massachusetts who was deported in August 2018. ...

By Amy-Xiaoshi DePapaola, AsAmNews Contributor A D.C.-based coalition recently challenged ICE over its conduct and arrest of more than 30 Cambodian Americans. Asian American advocacy groups had denounced the deportation of more than 30 Cambodian Americans on Jan. 13, AsAmNews reported. Said individuals were deported on a single flight...

A judge issued an order this week to prevent a Cambodian American refugee from being deported from the United States, but the ruling came two days after the man had already been deported, reports the Sacramento Bee. The man who has not been identified was one of 30 refugees...

By Felix Poon, AsAmNews Staff Writer The family of a 44-year-old resident of Lowell, MA isn't giving up hope they can save him from being deported. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials on Thursday jailed Vibol Sok, one of two Cambodian refugees in Burlington that day who showed up for...

AsAmNews has learned that at least nine Cambodian refugees have been detained this week by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers nationwide, even as protestors gathered in at least a half dozen cities. "We have had ICE home raids targeting Cambodians in California and across the country this week," Anoop Prasad...

Views from the Edge The Cambodian American community is on edge this week as another round of deportations is expected to commence. Dozens of Cambodian refugees who came to the US legally as children and who served time behind bars for crimes committed as youth are being...

By Felix Poon, AsAmNews Staff Writer Close to two hundred demonstrators turned out in front of the JFK Federal Building in Boston to protest the imminent deportations of Cambodian Americans. Saray Im, a 44 years old resident of Lynn, MA was there with his family—he’s one of ten Cambodians in...

Views from the Edge This July 4th weelend, as the United States celebrates it's Independence Day, and as thousands of new American citizens are sworn in on aircraft carriers, auditoriums, in courtrooms,museums, gyms and sporting events around the country, the Trump administration is readying a...

A demonstration in Sacramento preceded Gov. Gavin Newsom's pardons of two Cambodian Americans Photo from SEARAC Views from the Edge After weeks of lobbying by Asian American advocacy groups, California Gov. Gavin Newsom pardoned two Cambodian refugees facing deportation. Kang Hen and Hay Hov received pardons from Newsom ...

Views from the Edge About 40 Khmer Americans are in a country they've never set foot in before. Many don't speak the language. The department of Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported the Cambodian refugees Monday from its detention center in El Paso, Texas. They were scheduled to land in the...

Three Asian American civil rights groups are demanding that Immigration and Customs Enforcement release all information related to the arrests, detention, and deportation of Southeast Asian Americans in the past 20 years.. The demand filed through a Freedom of Information Act request comes as 43 Cambodians deported from the United...

  Views from the Edge   Nine more Cambodians have been deported from the United States and arrived in Phnom Penh Wednesday morning. They join the 78 other Cambodians who have been deported since a Donald Trump directive in September.   Another group of about 50 Cambodians were due to be sent back this...

Over 100 Cambodian Americans have recently been detained for deportation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. Most of the detainees are currently being held at the Adelanto Detention Facility in Southern California, with case reviews expected to begin on Monday, according to a statement released by Southeast Asia...

Abuse victim Ny Nourn is awaiting a decision that could end in her freedom after 16 years in prison. A hearing was held at an immigration court Friday in San Francisco that could determine whether this Cambodian refugee is deported back to Southeast Asia or allowed to remain in the...

When it comes to criminal justice reform, you don't hear a lot about how that might impact Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. That's why I was a bit surprised to read these statistics from the National Council on Asian Pacific Americans. The incarceration rate of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders quadrupled...

  A new report from the Asian Pacific American Legal Center finds Asian Americans are more diverse socioeconomically than most realize, reports KPCC. Some Asian American groups in Southern California earn more than non-Latino whites, but groups such as Cambodians, Bangladeshis and Tongans on average earn less than blacks and Latino. "There...

By Jia H. Jung, California Local News Fellow This project was supported by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, and is part of “Healing California,” a yearlong reporting Ethnic Media Collaborative venture with print, online and broadcast outlets across California. The Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC) based in Oakland, California, has...

By Jia H. Jung, California Local News Fellow As 2023 drew to a close, AsAmNews went on a search for the year’s writing by Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander authors. Minsoo Kang, MA, Ph.D., a European history specialist, Korean-to-English translator, author, and history professor at the University of Missouri-St....